JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 15 July 1910, Page 2

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

THE BAR-SCOURING WORKS. ■ (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, July 13. ~ The work of extending the mole at Gastlecliff lias already liegun on the • southern side of the entrance to the harbour. The board's staff is at present engaged in extending the wharf there. .This work will occupy about a fortnight, and thereafter extension work on both moles will lie carried on simultaneously. About 400 ft. will be added to the. south, mole and 500 ft. to' the north mole. This will carry the latter to the present line of the bar, and will complete the present harbour works scheme. The economical way . > in.which it has been carried out will, it is expected, result in the expenditure being several thousand pounds below the estimate, and the board will utilise the - surplus for adding a fev." hundred more feet to each mole, thus considerably amplifying the present scheme at no more additional cost. Tho Mayor-and burgesses'of Wanganui are defendants in a ease to be hoard next ✓ Monday in the Magistrate's Court, ix£ which the inspector of awards is suing the corporation for failing to pay the rates prescribed by the plumbers' award. The point at issue is a definition of what constitutes plumbers' work.